Rhythms Blog

How the Chief of Staff role is quietly becoming the de facto AI lead — and what to do about it.

QBRs maintain the relationship. Health reviews surface the truth. 7 signals your CHR should catch.

I built Ally.io and led Viva Goals. My honest ranking of every major Cascade alternative.

The executive operating review: what it is, what it needs, and why most teams get it wrong.

Reviews eating your Sunday? 7 signs your business review process is broken — and how to fix each.

An insider review of what OKR tools get right, get wrong, and what breaks at scale.

The CoS role rewards competence with invisibility. 60 years of research explains what to do.

Operational overhead is the invisible tax stealing management time. Here's how to cut it.

Only 1 in 8 AI agent pilots reaches production. Here's what the ones that work do differently.

I used to hold every coordination thread by hand. Here's what changed when AI took that over.

3 years building Viva Goals. My honest ranking of every alternative — and what most still miss.

40% of enterprise apps will embed AI agents by year-end. Here's what that means for your H2.